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Bugged?
While visiting Moscow to play the Russians in the historic Summit Series (in 197...
Reds
One day during the production of Reds, the story of Marxist journalist Jo...
Political Coup
One day during a summit meeting of Foreign Secretaries in the 1950s, Ernest Bevi...
Red in the Face?
One day shortly after his retirement from the University of Chicago, Robert Hutc...
Nikita Khrushchev: Russian ...
"While Minister of Labour for Great Britain, I had the pleasure to have a meetin...
Joseph Stalin: Free at Last?
Russian dictator Joseph Stalin once fell into a rabid argument with another poli...
Allied Comrade?
During World War II Dashiell Hammett served on Adak in the Aleutian Islands, whe...
Robert F. Kennedy: Monkey B...
Robert F. Kennedy was an anti-communist crusader of herioc proportions. During t...
Diego Rivera & the Rockefel...
In 1933, the Mexican artist Diego Rivera was commissioned to paint a fresco for ...
Churchill's Lion
During the Yalta conference in 1945, Winston Churchill and the British delegatio...
Wilde Assertion
Oscar Wilde was once asked why he was not a socialist. "I prefer," he replied, "...
Witch Hunt
During the Hayes Commission investigation of "reds" in Hollywood during the late...
John Komrade Galbraith
The noted right-wing journalist William F. Buckley, Jr. once tried to arrange a ...
Soviet Technology
BBC host John Simpson once had a memorable run-in with Soviet officials at Shere...
Beijing Olympics: True Colors
In 2000, Chinese president Jiang Zemin and his Communist party colleagues in Bei...
Loony Bobby Fischer
"Chess is not merely a game of the mind, but of the heart, the soul, and the cho...
Catholic Communist
One day while visiting Soviet-dominated Warsaw in 1956, Elisabeth was assigned a...
Rhymes with Petard?
In 1919 Lincoln Steffens (then an admirer of socialism) and William Bullitt visi...
Grapes of Wrath
Russian censors permitted John Ford's classic 1940 film ...
Tank Man
In the early hours of June 4, 1989, Chinese tanks converged from all directions ...
Socialist Realism
The Russian writer Maksim Gorky (to whom the Soviet Encyclopedia once ref...
Horizon
During the course of a speech one day, Walther Ulbricht, extolling the glories o...
Marxist Irony
"The key to understanding why Marx is tittering in Highgate Cemetery is the diff...
HUAC Meeting (long)
"During the House Un-American Activities Committee's purge of Hollywood, liberal...
Che?
After finishing medical school in 1953, Che Guevara embarked on a tour of South ...
Head of State
One day in 2003, the controversial Russian artist Alexander Kosolapov erected a ...
Pink as a Fink? (long)
The Cat in the Hat was largely composed from three word lists, drawn up b...
Big Brother
"Right after Orwell's death the C.I.A. (Howard Hunt was the agent on the case) s...
Young Idealist
Georges Clemenceau was once interrupted in his office by an urgent message: "You...
Coney Baloney
While visiting the United States one year, the Soviet writer Maksim Gorky was in...
Jay Lovestone: American Com...
"In 1929, Jay Lovestone, the head of the American communist party, was summoned ...
Das Irony
For much of his life Karl Marx was a slovenly obsessive who neglected his family...
Red Ink
Robert Morley was once approached by a small group of American theatre producers...
David Pesci: Chinese Apology
After an American spy plane crashed while flying in Chinese airspace in April 20...
Loss of China
"[During World War II, Madame Chiang Kai-shek] addressed the American Congress, ...
KGB Files
Before ascending to the Russian presidency, Vladimir Putin served as an agent wi...
James Baker: Communist Country
"On his first trip to China, James Baker, a former treasury secretary and former...
Scrooge-Type
When Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was released (with Jimmy Stewart in the...
Red Flag?
In the early 1970s Chinese "Communist" leader Mao Tse Tung commissioned a ten-me...
Guest Worker
While touring the Soviet Union with the original cast of the Stratford Festival ...
Third Way
Czech President Václav Klaus was once asked about the so called "third way" betw...
Friedrich Ebert: Expert Opi...
"In 1950, when the 1,210-room stone Schloss [a castle in the center of Berlin] w...
20-30 Vision
After World War I, French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau was told that his yo...
Dmitri Hvorostovsky
The famed baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky once recalled his first trip outside the ...
Fixed Thinking
During his tenure as Soviet president, Mikhail Gorbachev visited Silvio Berlusco...
Young Dalton Trumbo
"They told us to ask any questions we wanted," the screenwriter Dalton Trumbo on...
Killing Fields
Pol Pot's experiments in agrarian social engineering (which involved such atroci...
Kitchen Debate
In late 1958, at the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the United Sta...
Red Terror
"To my paper, the New York World, I had sent a lengthy cable on The Red T...
Rachmaninov & Stravinsky
Though little love was lost between Sergei Rachmaninov and his fellow composer I...
Marinho's Communists
"[Brazilian media mogul Roberto Marinho] divided his countrymen roughly into 'pa...
William Browder: Ironic Dec...
"As a young banker, [American-born capitalist] William Browder found his way to ...
Elia Kazan & Leo Penn
In the early 1950s, at the height of the notorious McCarthy witch hunts, many Ho...
Politiburo
Following Lenin's death, Joseph Stalin unceremoniously eliminated his military a...
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